Platform Developer 1 - Certification Goal
Resources
Lessons
Developer Fundamentals
- Understand multi-tenant concepts and design frameworks, such as MVC architecture and Lightning Component Framework.
- Given a scenario, identify common use cases and best practices for declarative versus programmatic customizations, including governor limits, formula fields, and roll-up summaries.
- Given a scenario, determine, create, and access the appropriate data model including objects, fields, relationships, and external IDs.
- Given a scenario, identify the options and considerations when importing and exporting data into development environments.
- Knowledge Check
Process Automation and Logic: Advanced Topics
- Given a scenario, follow best practices to write Apex classes and triggers.
- Given a scenario, identify the implications of governor limits on Apex transactions
- Describe the relationship between Apex transactions, the save order of execution, and the potential for recursion and/or cascading
- Implement exception handling in Apex, including custom exceptions as needed
- Knowledge Check
User Interface
- Given a scenario, display content or modify Salesforce data using a Visualforce page and the appropriate controllers or extensions as needed
- Describe the Lightning Component framework, its benefits, and the types of content that can be contained in a Lightning web component
- Given a scenario, prevent user interface and data access security vulnerabilities
- Given a scenario, display and use a custom user interface components, including Lightning Components, Flow, and Visualforce.
- Describe the use cases and best practices for Lightning Web Component events.
- Given a scenario, implement Apex to work with various types of page components, including Lightning Components, Flow, Next Best Actions, etc.
- Knowledge Check
Testing, Debugging and Deployment: Debugging and Deployment
- Describe how to approach debugging system issues and monitoring flows, processes, and asynchronous and batch jobs, etc.
- Given a scenario, know how and when to use the Salesforce Developer tools such as Salesforce DX, Salesforce CLI, and Developer Console.
- Describe the environments, requirements, and process for deploying code and associated configurations.
- Knowledge Check
I passed the PD1 exam yesterday. The practice exams and the study guide were really helpful.
Congratulations on passing the PD1 exam! We’re glad to hear that our practice exams and study guide were helpful in your preparation. Thank you for choosing Focus on Force, and we wish you all the best in your future Salesforce endeavors!
I passed my Platform Developer 1 certification last weekend relying on this course, thank you very much. Solving the practice papers was most helpful. Thank you for having such a good study materials.
Congratulations, Ashik! Thank you for sharing your experience! The whole team is happy to know that we are able to help, cheers!
I passed the PD1 exam relying on this course, and using the Salesforce Developer articles provided through the links. Lots of learning…I started PD1 with no coding experience. I used some code tutorials to gain comprehension and the ability to write in Apex and Visualforce. FOF brought me beyond the basics to help understand the why and how of many nuances in the code. Extremely helpful knowledge on the cert exam! For the record, I failed my first attempt, noted my weak areas, and used FOF to fill in my knowledge gaps. I passed on the second attempt 10 days later. Definitely the hardest cert I’ve taken to date! Thanks for a great product!
Congratulations Trent, on passing the PD1 exam! We are thrilled to hear that our course and resources helped you along the way. It takes dedication and hard work to go from having no coding experience to passing a challenging certification exam, and we are proud to have played a role in your success. Well done on your perseverance and determination, and thank you for sharing your experience with us. We hope you continue to find our resources valuable as you progress in your Salesforce journey. Best of luck!
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Hello everyone, I am very happy to announce, that I passed the PD1 exam today!!! Thank you Focus on Force, Natalya Murphy and Warren Walters 😀
Congratulations on passing your PD1 exam! The FoF team is proud of your hard work and dedication. Thank you for choosing Focus on Force for your study needs. Keep up the great work!
Are the code snippets in the guide available as a zip for download? Its very useful to try out the examples but hard to take it from the guide. Appreciate the content depth!
Hi Vijaya, thank you for the feedback. Unfortunately, we don’t have them ready. However, you can send a request to support@focusonforce.com to allow copying text, or code in this case, from the slides.
I passed PD1 on Monday, Jan. 16th. Thanks so much for the study material! The practice exam structure was the GOAT.
Hi Stephen, congrats, that’s great news! Thanks for sharing! We are happy to hear that Focus on Force helped you with your cert journey 🙂
Hi! I passed my PD1 exam yesterday thanks to FOF. Thanks for the great material!
Hello Maurice, Congratulations on passing your PD1 exam! We are glad to hear that FOF materials were helpful in your studies. It’s always rewarding to put in the hard work and come out on top. Keep up the good work!
Hello, I would like to know if questions about the Aura code and the Process Builder are still maintained, because these tools are no longer recommended?
Hi Alexis, thanks for the inquiry. Materials related to these topics are still being maintained since they are included in the Salesforce exam guide for the current certification. https://trailhead.salesforce.com/help?article=Salesforce-Certified-Platform-Developer-I-Exam-Guide
OK, thank you Ian.
I passed my PD1 last weekend thanks to this course.
Hi Ryan, hope you are doing well, thank you for sharing the news with us. We are equally delighted and excited for you. More success to you, All the best!
As many others have commented, I also took and passed my PD1 exam after studying this course. There’s definitely a ton of information in the course – it was all very well thought out and built on itself. Thank you FoF!!
Hi Austin, hope you are doing well, thank you for sharing the news with us. We are equally delighted and excited for you. More success to you, All the best!